若いころ,お正月の深夜映画で中村錦之助主演の「
宮本武蔵」を見て感動し,さらに吉川英治の原作を読んで再び感動しました。
その為,内田吐夢監督,中村錦之助主演の「
宮本武蔵」はずっと気になっていた映画でした。
今度デジタルリマスターされたので買ってみましたが,空の青と白い雲が最近撮影された写真のように美しかったのには感動しました。
俳優陣も中村錦之助を初め,三國連太郎,浪花千栄子,花沢徳衛,木村功,小暮実千代と名優揃いです。特に三國連太郎と浪花千栄子のうまさには脱帽です。
そのような名優の中にあっては新人の入江若葉はまるでひな菊のように可憐です。
太い縄で縛られて千年杉に吊るされた武蔵と,沢庵坊主が対峙する「人生をどのように生きるか」という問答はこの映画の見どころになっていますが,でも難しい内容ではありません。
地獄に落ちた亡者のような顔をして絶叫している中村錦之助の迫真の演技には圧倒されました。
内田吐夢は実にスケールの大きい映画作りをする監督さんで「飢餓海峡」を見た時もそのように感じました。
「
宮本武蔵」第一部を見ただけでも十分に堪能しました。
過去、吉川永治の「
三国志」を何度、読み返した事か、やがてボロボロになり捨ててしまいましたが電子書籍は劣化が無く、非常にありがたい。
しかも無料で読めるのは最高です。
This would have to be one of the best novels I have ever read. Before I started reading it, I thought that it would take forever to read.....970 pages of small writing....but I found it almost impossible to put down.
I had heard alot of great things about Miyamoto Musashi, who has been called the greatest samurai swordsman ever, so I initially bought "The Book of Five Rings", which Musashi wrote explaining the way of the sword. i found it to be a very dry and tedious read and I went off anything factual that had to do with Musashi.....but then I came across this piece of fiction based on the real life of Musashi.....a story about family, love, revenge and of course Musashi's infamous fights that made him the legend he is today. I could learn everything there was to learn about Musashi and enjoy the fantastic story that went along with his life. It is much easier to remember things about him when you actually enjoy what you are reading.
The author, Eiji Yoshikawa, is an extremely gifted writer and I also enjoyed his other books that have been translated into English. Charles Terry did a fantastic translation of "Musashi". "TAIKO" is another great samurai epic by Yoshikawa. It's about the famous monkey man leader of Japan, Hideyoshi, and is set just before that of "Musashi". I recommend reading "TAIKO" first so that you can understand about the volatile times of Japan, then read "Musashi", which follows into more peaceful times, where people roamed the streets looking to duel with samurai of status to improve their own reputations or find the way of the sword.